I'm severely disappointed with AMC. Me and especially my brother have worried that AMC might do something to really hurt the show, and right now, I'm hoping that this isn't it. Ultimately, if the show does get worse, we'll know who to blame.

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"Soon, everyone in this city will know how it feels to live in my world.
A world without power. Without mercy. A world without Spider-Man.
They will see me for who I truly am. I'm Electro."

Not gonna happen ever, unlike Mad Men and Breaking Bad, AMC have complete ownership of the show. The ratings are I think highest of anything on the network, and it makes them a lot of money, so why would they give it up?

Also a bit of trivia, HBO actually passed on this show way back when Darabont pitched it to them, with Thomas Jane as Rick. Of course when AMC finally came a long, Jane was already doing Hung.

I genuinely hope the response to the news is so unanimously negative and openly hateful that AMC starts to reconsider and begs Mazzara to come back. I honestly kinda hope (but don't really expect) the actors to voice their disdain for the fact that AMC has pulled this **** on them twice over, and ESPECIALLY after their highest-rated and best reviewed season yet.

When Darabont was let go,the actors were told if they complained in public, their characters would be written off the show. Not sure if that threat applied to Andrew Lincoln, but certailny all the others had to be concerned for their jobs.

maybe DISH knew what they were doing after all, stinks that AMC seems to have forced smiles on everyone involved. Come on and kill Merle, afterwards Rooker looks like the kind of guy not to give a **** and spill what really went down.

I can't believe that AMC still has these kind of problems. I'm seething in anger right now. I just hope Glenn Mazzara stays on until the end of season 3. The change in pacing, action, and drama has been a very noticeable improvement since Mazzara signed on. The ratings speak for themselves, its never been more popular. It will take more money and more work to keep up the model Mazzara put forth AFTER he leaves with a new EP. I fail to see how AMC doesn't realize this.

Well this is a damn shame, but totally unsurprising considering AMC's dealings with their other showrunners. They just don't know how lucky they are having such creative talent at their network, and I think soon that bad karma's gonna catch up to them once MM and BB finish. TWD is inevitably gonna go downhill at some point, sooner than later with this kind of stuff happening constantly behind-the-scenes. Then they'll be "that network" that spends years trying to recapture their glory days.

They think the success of the shows is because of them, not the creators. Gilligan and Weiner are lucky AMC doesn't own their shows, because it allows them to have the "taking the show to another network" card to play, which sadly The Walking Dead doesn't have.